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Photograph of Winifred Road, Urmston. Copyright James Wride, Urmston, who had a stationer's shop on Flixton Road. Estimated date of the photograph is around the 1940s.

Photograph of Nurse Winifred Helen Spencer. The location of this photograph is unknown. Nurse Spencer completed her nursing training at Park Hospital in Davyhulme and worked at Abbotsfield Hospital in Flixton during the Second World War.

Faux-ivory plaque, awarded to Stretford by the War Office, recognising their fundraising during Wings for Victory Week (1945)

William ‘Bill’ Speakman was born on 21st September 1927 at 17 Moss Lane, Altrincham. He attended Oakfield Road School, Altrincham and Wellington Road Secondary School, Timperley. Bill left school at the age of 14. He joined the 1st Cadet Battalion…